Tiny Adobe Illustrator Job

I have an Adobe Illustrator file which is a company logo. Part of the logo is a simple vector based elongated &quot;star&quot; shape. I need this shape alone to be extracted, keeping it as a vector, from the logo (or recreated identically) so it can be used as a background image. The problem is that it currently forms part of the path of the logo as a whole and i personally dont have the required skills to be able to do this very simple job myself. I cannot imagine this being any more than 20 minutes work for anyone reasonably skilled with Illustrator.